The World of Warcraft Website has a list of changes in a new hotfix to address issues in the recent Shattering of Azeroth version Patch 4.0.3a patch for World of Warcraft that paved the way for the new Cataclysm expansion for Blizzard's MMORPG. Word is: "While many have already been deployed on all realms, some may not be implemented until the next time your realm is restarted." Thanks Ant.

Verno wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 15:29:Better than previous expansions where many players were met with "World Server Down" type stuff for the first three days. It's either come a long way or there are a lot less players these days. Probably a bit of A and B. I do sympathize with Blizzard however as provisioning for a handful of high resource load days a year doesn't make any sense financially.

I have little sympathy for their financials when they sell transparent, glowy horses for $25 apiece. With the mega profits they're making, they could easily afford the extra provisioning, and still make obscene amounts of cash.